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| From | "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able |
| Date | 2017-02-17 06:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <tbIXT-8g6-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 02/16/17 15:27, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > That is obvious. Do you think that Multiboot/Multiboot2 protocols are > substantially suboptimal? > Yes. They push a lot of things into the bootloader for no good reason, thus tying the kernel's hands and making the whole boot process more fragile. It isn't either like Grub has been very good about keeping to any spec, their own or others. -hpa
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[RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-15 16:00 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-02-15 17:50 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-16 03:20 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-15 19:20 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2017-02-15 21:20 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-15 22:00 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-16 03:10 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> - 2017-02-17 00:40 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2017-02-17 06:10 +0100
Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> - 2017-02-20 19:50 +0100
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